Books like The Jolly Rogers by Tom Blackburn

In 1665 Jamaica, Captain Charles Hunter courts danger to hijack a Spanish galleon laden with gold, sparking a perilous clash between ruthless pirates and imperial forces amid the island’s wild, lawless streets.

A fresh seminary graduate, Father Christopher is transported to the Golden Age of Piracy, where he must navigate life as a buccaneer on Caribbean waters in pursuit of Spanish treasure.

When Nancy Kington's arranged marriage on a Jamaican plantation looms, she flees with her enslaved companion, Minerva, to become daring pirates who sail the seas in pursuit of buried treasure.

Jacky Faber leaves her Boston boarding school, stows aboard a whaling ship to London, and discovers that her quest to reunite with Jaimy leads to unexpected adventures across the high seas.

Perhaps the most famous aviator of World War II, Butch O'Hare captured America's hearts and headlines in 1942 after saving the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation - the downing of five attacking Japanese bombers. Yet the untimely and still controversial death of this Medal of Honor recipient the next year cast a shadow over O'Hare's legacy. This first full biography, written with the O'Hare family's cooperation and utilizing recently released Japanese war records, chronicles the short but eventful life of the American hero and sheds new light on his mysterious death. Seasoned naval aviation historians, the authors describe in fascinating detail O'Hare's awe-inspiring feats of aerial combat and his key role in developing tactics such as the Thach Weave and the night-fighting techniques that helped defeat the Japanese.

Sam Hynes was eighteen when he left his Minnesota home for navy flight school in 1943. By the time the war ended he was a veteran Marine pilot, still not quite twenty-one, and had flown more than a hundred missions in the Pacific theater. In this eloquent narrative, by turns dramatic, funny, and elegiac, Hynes recalls those extraordinary years during which he came of age. he makes real the places—the training fields and the liberty towns and the Pacific islands, and the people—the other young pilots, the girls and the young wives, even the enemy pilots. He remembers friendship, and the excitement and tedium of war, the high exhilaration of flying, and the dying. More than a tale of combat, Flight of Passage is a story of one boy's growth to manhood in the turbulent, testing world of war in the air.

After defending her honor, Katy Coswell is captured aboard the pirate ship Hawk and forced to share a bed with its ruthless captain, James Bartlett. Their forbidden attraction blooms amidst danger and betrayal.